hhinner wrote: ↑Sun Aug 04, 2019 11:41 am
Takiap wrote:hhinner wrote: ↑Sat Aug 03, 2019 12:15 pm
Foreigners pay a 250 baht "service" charge without using the express clinic. This is receipted separately to medical charges and is on a receipt from the office of the public health ministry permanent secretary welfare fund - hua hin hospital.
I'm sorry to sat this mate, but you are mistaken. Assuming you don't use any express service, the fee for seeing a general practitioner at HH Hospital is 110 baht, not 250 baht.
I saw a doctor last weekend and it cost me 110 baht. This doctor booked an appointment for me with the ENT specialist who I saw on the Tuesday. That consultation was actually free and surgery was scheduled for last Friday.
Also, this morning I accompanied a friend of mine to HH Hospital, and once again, the charge for seeing the doctor was 110 baht. He now has an appointment to see the urologist on Tuesday.
I honestly don't know where you get the 250 baht service fee from because it is in fact only 110 baht.
I'm not mistaken, I have the receipts. Every 3 months I attend the OPD clinic on 2nd floor, room 8. Cashier 1st (ground) floor gives 2 receipts, 1 for "nursing" and medicine and another one for "service". The "service" fee is not the consultation fee. The consultation fee is the "nursing" fee on the actual hospital receipt. If you reread my post you would understand that the service charge goes into a welfare fund
In fact the nursing fee seems to vary between 50 and 100 baht, possibly depending on whether I see a junior (student?) or senior doctor, but that's just my speculation.
It is possible that different clinics within the hospital have different charges.
It seems we have been on different pages mate.
The fee I was talking about is the fee you pay if you are only there to see the on-duty general practitioner, for which you pay 110 baht assuming you aren't given any meds.
When I visited last weekend, the on-duty doctor saw me and then made an appointment to see the ENT specialist on the Tuesday morning. This weekend visit cost 110 baht, and strangely enough, I was not charged for the initial consultation with the ENT specialist, nor for the blood tests which she ordered. I can only assume that this was because she scheduled me for surgery and I would be paying for that.
A bit off topic here, but I have read a post on a different forum from a guy who had an almost identical procedure to the two which I had. He paid just over 11K at a certain hospital which also has a branch in Hua Hin, and he thought it was a very reasonable price. This did not include the cost of a pathology test.
At HH Hospital, I had a double procedure done by a beautiful young woman in a brand spanking new operating theater, and the entire procedure, including pathology tests and meds cost me 3, 990 baht. All I can say is that I am immensely grateful given that I barely manage to scrape by each month.
Don't try to impress me with your manner of dress cos a monkey himself is a monkey no less - cold fact